Library gateway

Search engines
Email
Library catalogue search, renew and reserve music, books and films
Online resources reference resources and online facilities
Ask a Librarian enquiry service
Useful links

Search engines

• Google www.google.co.uk
• Yahoo http://uk.yahoo.com
• Dogpile www.dogpile.co.uk
• My Guide www.myguide.gov.uk

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Email accounts

• My Guide www.myguide.gov.uk
• Hotmail www.hotmail.com
• Yahoo https://login.yahoo.com
• Gmail http://mail.google.com

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Free Online subscriptions

• Ancestry www.ancestrylibrary.com
• Driving theory test http://nottscc.theorytestpro.co.uk
• Reference
  Encyclopedia Britannica junior (5 - 11)
  Encyclopedia Britannica student (12 - 18)
  Encyclopedia Britannica general (all ages)
  Oxford Reference Online- a collection of 240 reference titles
  Oxford Dictionary of National Biography - 50,000 biographies
  Oxford English Dictionary
  Oxford Music Online
  Oxford Art Online
• Kompass - online business directory www.kompass.com
• Life in Britain www.220soft.net/nottinghamshire
• Newsbank - a collection of UK newspapers http://infoweb.newsbank.com
• 19th Century British Library Newspapers

Accessing online resources from your home PC

All the online subscriptions are available at home except Ancestry and Newsbank.

To search Oxford Reference Online (ORO)

1. click on the ORO link
2. in the box for library card login type D and the first 8 digits from your library card
3. click on Login or Go

To search Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB)

1. click on the ODNB link
2. in the top right hand corner click on subscribers enter here
3. type D and the first 8 digits from your library card

To search the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) online

1. click on the OED link
2. click on the enter OED online icon

To search Oxford dictionaries of music or art online

1. click on the Oxford music link or click on the Oxford art link
2. go to the library barcode user login
3. type D and the first 8 digits from your library card

To search Kompass

1. click on the Kompass link
2. in the login box type D and the first 8 digits from your library card
3. click on Go

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Library catalogue

search, renew and reserve books, music and film

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Ask a Librarian 24/7 enquiry service

Ask a question and your enquiry will be answered by a Librarian that is on duty from anywhere in the country. And when UK libraries are closed your enquiry will be answered by a Librarian in the USA.

website: www.questionpoint.org

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Useful links

Advice and voluntary
Basic skills
Blind and visually impaired
Business
Children
Citizenship
Dyslexia
Employment
Gypsy and traveller
Health
Leisure
LGBT
Libraries and museums
Lifelong learning
Local studies
Migrant workers
News
Older people
Quick ref
Reading
Travel and tourism
Young adults

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